The difference between Freeze and Stop
When used as nouns, freeze means a period of intensely cold weather, whereas stop means a (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
When used as verbs, freeze means especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature, whereas stop means to cease moving.
Stop is also adverb with the meaning: prone to halting or hesitation.
Stop is also adjective with the meaning: being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
check bellow for the other definitions of Freeze and Stop
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Freeze as a verb (intransitive):
Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
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Freeze as a verb (transitive):
To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
Examples:
"Don't freeze meat twice."
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Freeze as a verb (intransitive):
To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
Examples:
"It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh."
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Freeze as a verb (intransitive, informal):
To be affected by extreme cold.
Examples:
"It's freezing in here!"
"Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!"
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Freeze as a verb (intransitive):
(of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
Examples:
"Since the last update, the program freezes / freezes up after a few minutes of use."
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Freeze as a verb (intransitive):
(of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
Examples:
"Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze up as soon as I got on stage."
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Freeze as a verb (transitive):
To cause someone to become motionless.
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Freeze as a verb (figuratively):
To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
Examples:
"Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances."
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Freeze as a verb:
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
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Freeze as a verb (transitive):
To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
Examples:
"The court froze the criminal's bank account."
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Freeze as a noun:
A period of intensely cold weather.
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Freeze as a noun:
A halt of a regular operation.
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Freeze as a noun (computer):
The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
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Freeze as a noun (curling):
A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
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Freeze as a noun (specifically, in, _, finance):
A block on pay rises.
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Freeze as a noun:
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Stop as a verb (intransitive):
To cease moving.
Examples:
"I stopped at the traffic lights."
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Stop as a verb (intransitive):
To not continue.
Examples:
"The riots stopped when police moved in."
"Soon the rain will stop."
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Stop as a verb (transitive):
To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
Examples:
"The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks."
"This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him."
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Stop as a verb (transitive):
To cause (something) to come to an end.
Examples:
"The referees stopped the fight."
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Stop as a verb (transitive):
To close or block an opening.
Examples:
"He stopped the wound with gauze."
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Stop as a verb (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down"):
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
Examples:
"To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22."
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Stop as a verb (intransitive):
To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
Examples:
"to stop with a friend"
"He stopped for two weeks at the inn."
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Stop as a verb (intransitive):
To tarry.
Examples:
"He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive."
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Stop as a verb (music):
To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
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Stop as a verb (obsolete):
To punctuate.
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Stop as a verb (nautical):
To make fast; to stopper.
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Stop as a noun:
A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
Examples:
"synonyms: halt station"
"They agreed to see each other at the bus stop."
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Stop as a noun:
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
Examples:
"That stop was not planned."
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Stop as a noun:
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
Examples:
"usex door stop"
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Stop as a noun (linguistics):
A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
Examples:
"synonyms: plosive occlusive"
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Stop as a noun:
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
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Stop as a noun:
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
Examples:
"[[pull out all the stops Pull out all the stops]]."
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Stop as a noun (music):
A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
Examples:
"The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled."
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Stop as a noun (tennis):
A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
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Stop as a noun (zoology):
The depression in a dog's face between the skull and the nasal bones.
Examples:
"The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked."
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Stop as a noun (photography):
An f-stop.
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Stop as a noun (engineering):
A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
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Stop as a noun (architecture):
A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
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Stop as a noun:
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
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Stop as an adverb:
Prone to halting or hesitation.
Examples:
"He’s stop still."
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Stop as a noun (UK, _, dialectal):
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
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Stop as an adjective (physics):
Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
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Compare with synonyms and related words:
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- continue vs stop
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- move vs stop
- proceed vs stop
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- cease vs stop
- desist vs stop
- discontinue vs stop
- halt vs stop
- stop vs terminate
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- proceed vs stop
- arrest vs stop
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- stop vs terminate
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